Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Get Rid of Ad.turn.com Virus



Is Ad.turn.com a virus?

Ad.turn.com is a kind of very risky browser hijacker virus, which has attacked millions of computers all over the world. If your PC is infected by this hijacker, you will not b able to surf the Internet like usual. First of all, the browsers, including IE, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome, will be hijacked all the time. And reinstalling the browsers will not help for a moment. Secondly, the search results will be always redirected to irrelevant websites that show some ads rather than the wanted information. Moreover, no matter your homepage or the default search engine will be replaced by its domain homepage without any permission. And you cannot get any useful information from its domain websites. Besides, the popping up ads will always appear on the screen to block the websites that you intend to visit. Hence, it is pretty serious and annoying. What’s more, ad.turn.com probably downloads additional programs into your PC to degrade the system performance and affect the whole system. To sum up, ad.turn.com definitely can cause a great harm to your PC, so you need to get rid of it as quickly as you can.
 

How to Remove Ad.turn.com virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Ad.turn.com Hijacker virus, you can go through the listed removal steps CAREFULLY.

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Ad.turn.com Hijacker redirect problem

2. After that, for IE users, you need to go to "Manage Add-ons" to uninstall bad add-ons if there is any.

For Chrome users, you need to open "Settings" and delete Ad.turn.com Hijacker from your start page and search engine

For Firefox users, you can go to "Add-ons" and remove its malicious toolbars and revert your default start page and new tab page.


3. There are many things to do if you want to manually get rid of Ad.turn.com Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ad.turn.com Redirect Popups
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ad.turn.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\webbrowser

4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.

%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
C:\WINDOWS\system32\giner.exe

Be known that Ad.turn.com Hijacker is very cunning and can change its file locations anytime. So please CAREFULLY edit your registry and delete its files.


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